Don’t spray, stay or stray. Understand your audience
So you have some interesting knowledge and insights to share? That’s great, but don’t risk it falling flat because you haven’t found or understood your audience.
Know your stuff? Don’t be scared. Your insights matter more than you think
While laying our insights and opinions bare for anyone to see in social media can be a scary thing, there's plenty of upside. No matter what your job role is, or how senior or junior you may be, what you know will be valued by others. Here's how to identify the knowledge and insights you want to share.
Sharing what you know has got its sexy back
With LinkedIn prioritising posts featuring knowledge and advice, there’s never been a better time to share what you know.
Winner yesterday? Your game plan may not work in the future
Sometimes in work and life, when things get hectic of stressful, we lean on the same old tactics to get things done, and then we’re surprised or disappointed when we don’t get the outcome we want. Executive coaching can help.
All work and no play makes you dull and boring on LinkedIn
Many people assume because LinkedIn is a professional network we should only present one dimension of ourselves: the ‘work’ self. The trouble is, being all work and no play is boring and doesn’t set us apart from the crowd.
Why liking stuff is just not enough: 10 reasons to go beyond the ‘like’ button in LinkedIn
Too often when I look up people on LinkedIn, I see that all or almost all of their activity is liking content. There are no posts made by those individuals. Or content is shared without comment. Often this behaviour is driven by a belief that keeping our insights and perspectives to ourselves is the safest game to play.
Can we turn kids into grown-ups in just two months?
Even though our kids are digital natives, after watching mine ‘work from home’ for 30 days or so, I know they’re struggling too. We’re watching them try to adhere to all sorts of business rules and we’re disappointed when they can’t.
When you share what you know
Sharing what you know need not be impolite when it comes from a good place. Be a little vulnerable. Offer advice to stop someone else’s train from crashing. Share some work in progress and ask how it could be improved. You may be surprised at the response you get.
Educator, entertainer, help desk & cheerleader. The many hats of a community manager
If you want to have a thriving enterprise social network, you need to have professional community managers leading the effort to ensure communities are strategic, relevant and valuable to the organisation and the people engaging in them. What follows is a rough role mandate for a community manager, based on input from people in the job.